Big Data Supercharged Gerrymandering. It Could Help Stop It, Too
Big Data Supercharged Gerrymandering. It Could Help Stop It, Too
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
July 1, 20196m 19s
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Show Notes
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices ruled Thursday that the highest court doesn’t have the power to address partisan gerrymandering, the practice in which politicians redraw district maps to help their own party win more elections. In two cases, Lamone v. Benisek and Rucho v. Common Cause, the court split along ideological lines 5 to 4. Chief Justice John G.
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